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1. Final preparations made for municipal elections

2. National Assembly committee approves Sucre

3. Nicaragua receives loans for health care, housing

4. Nicaraguan women find family members in Mexico

5. School meals reaching 11,000 schools

6. Attacks against LGBT community increase in 2012

7. New health center will serve 1500 residents of La Chureca

8. “La Gritería” proposed for UNESCO heritage list



1. Final preparations made for municipal elections

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By Dana Frank

[Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.]

Foreign Affairs

October 16, 2012

Honduras is becoming notorious. The country now has the highest murder rate in the world. In 2011, more people were killed per capita in the industrial center of San Pedro Sula than in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez, where the drug war rages on the U.S. border. It has also become one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist: At least 23 have been killed in the past three years. And according to the World Bank, 60 percent of the population lives in poverty, a statistic outmatched in the Western Hemisphere only by Haiti.

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